Music Fingerprinting

Emerging music fingerprinting technologies suggest the potential to automate the generation of complex music related metadata for radio including tracklists.

Music fingerprinting technology is widely used in consumer markets, particularly through music search apps like Shazam and Soundhound. It is also employed by UK media monitoring companies including Radiomonitor and Nielsen Music Tracking. As far as we are aware, Mixcloud‘s

Juno Download built the project a proof of concept live fingerprinting tool using the Juice Brighton live stream.

Conclusion

Existing music fingerprinting services, work well at identifying mainstream broadcast for the purpose of rights management but are not yet robust enough to cross check or replace user generated metadata.